Management system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12428188-B2
Application number	US-202117906287-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 29, 2021
Priority date	Mar 18, 2020
Publication date	Sep 30, 2025
Grant date	Sep 30, 2025

Abstract

A management system ( 1 ) manages a production line ( 2 ) including a processing apparatus ( 20 ) and an inspection apparatus ( 40 ). The management system ( 1 ) includes: a control unit ( 61 ) that estimates a processing time at which a defective food is processed by the processing apparatus ( 20 ) based on a time at which the defective food determined as a defective product by inspection by the inspection apparatus ( 40 ) is inspected; and a storage unit ( 62 ) that stores processing information of the processing apparatus ( 20 ) related to the processing time estimated by the control unit ( 61 ) such that the processing information can be output.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A management system that manages a production line including a processing apparatus that performs a processing on food, a weighing apparatus that measures food and a packaging apparatus that packages the measured food using a bag and an inspection apparatus that determines a package which is the food packaged using the bag by the processing apparatus is defective, the management system comprising:
a processor; and
a memory that stores in association an image of the food during the processing and image time information that indicates a time at which the image is captured,
wherein the processor:
estimates a processing time at which the processing apparatus performs the processing on the food based on an inspection time at which the inspection apparatus determines that the package is defective and a food processing speed per unit time of the production line,
selects from the memory the image associated with the image time information that corresponds to the processing time, and
outputs the image.

2. The management system according to claim 1 , further comprising a camera which captures an image of a processing status in which the food is processed by the processing apparatus, wherein
the processor selects image information in a time zone including the processing time from image information indicating the processing status captured by the camera, and
the memory stores the selected image information as the processing information.

3. The management system according to claim 2 , wherein
the processing apparatus performs a first processing on the food and performs a second processing on the food after the first processing,
the camera includes:
a first camera that captures an image of a processing status of the food in the first processing; and
a second camera that captures an image of a processing status of the food in the second processing,

the processor:
estimates a first processing time at which the defective food is processed by the first processing and a second processing time at which the defective food is processed by the second processing based on the time at which the inspection is performed;
selects image information in a first time zone including the first processing time from image information indicating the processing status captured by the first camera; and
selects image information in a second time zone including the second processing time from image information indicating the processing status captured by the second camera; and
the memory stores each piece of the selected image information as the processing information.

4. The management system according to claim 1 , wherein
the processing apparatus includes:
a weighing apparatus that weighs the food; and
the packaging apparatus, and

the processor estimates the processing time at which the defective food is processed by the weighing apparatus.

Assignees

• Ishida Seisakusho

Inventors

• Hashiguchi Nobuki
• Ishibashi Tsuyoshi

Classifications

• H04N7/181

  for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources · CPC title

• G06T2207/30128

  Food products · CPC title

• G06T7/0004

  Industrial image inspection · CPC title

• G01G19/393

  using two or more weighing units · CPC title

• B65B1/32

  by weighing (check-weighing of filled containers or receptacles B65B1/46) · CPC title